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OT: What is your football related background?

It is a boring Friday night seeing as many people are off campus for Spring Break, so I figured I would take advantage of my new posting capabilities to have this question answered.

This is a question I have often pondered since I began frequenting Mgoblog.  What football background do most people have around here?  To what degree is the Mgoblog community made up of just plain old football fans, ex high school players, ex college players, coaches (etc)?  This is just out of plain curiousity.  Feel free to include other sports experience as well since this is not exclusively a football blog.

I guess I will start. I played high school football and also a bit of amateur/semi pro ball before tearing my ACL and MCL which brought my fun to an end.  I played an outside linebacker / hybrid, inverted safety position at both levels.  I don't have much experience with other sports other than simply being a well informed fan.  Been a huge football fan since the age of six or seven, like most people here I imagine.

 

 

 

 

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March 2nd, 2012 at 6:47 PM | Ex-college player who still (Score:3 Normal)
dennisblundon
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Ex-college player who still loves the game and always enjoyed the way Michigan played football. Never got that Michigan offer but hope my nephew one day does.

March 2nd, 2012 at 6:58 PM | Played football until I was a (Score:1 Normal)
MAIZEandBLUE2002
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Played football until I was a senior in HS. Had 6 concussions in four years and had to stop playing half way through my senior year. Ended up playing a baseball for a year at SRU before deciding it wasnt for me.

I am now entering my sixth year as a varsity high school football coach. I plan on being an OC by next year and hopefully a head coach one day. I have a lot more to learn, but Im up for the challenge.

THOSE WHO STAY WILL BE CHAMPIONS

March 2nd, 2012 at 8:42 PM | Say it ain't so (Score:5 Normal)
Tater
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You are telling us that the guy who is "sick of how pussified the NFL has become" and is in favor of bounties for injuries, and is enough of a loose cannon to post it on a public forum is entrusted with being an example and role model for high school athletes?

Sorry, dude, but I'm going to go vomit now.

 

 

 

March 2nd, 2012 at 9:24 PM | Fortunately now that he's put (Score:0 Flamebait)
March 2nd, 2012 at 9:51 PM | Im a loose cannon because I (Score:1 Normal)
MAIZEandBLUE2002
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Im a loose cannon because I think the NFL has become soft? That makes sense. Again, I never said I am in favor of a bounty. I said I have np with it as long as everything is within the rules and its a clean hit. Some of you guys dont interpret things very well. Its not like I go to practice and implement a bounty or some sort of reward for injuring an opposing teams star player. We run a clean program and emphasize sportsmanship. Just bc I have opinion on something doesnt mean I practice it. None of you know me. I am a role model. I am only in my mid 20s and have been coaching varsity for several years. So dont judge me like Im a bad person or a bad coach. I would never tell a high school kid to injure someone. I guess Im cut from a different cloth than you guys. I am an intense guy, but if you think I encouraged those actions you are mistaken. 

And for the guy who thinks Id get fired because of that comment I made is actually quite comical.

THOSE WHO STAY WILL BE CHAMPIONS

March 2nd, 2012 at 10:01 PM | having no problem with (Score:2 Normal)
Serth
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having no problem with incentives for 'clean hits to injure a player' = being in favor of such. it isn't a crime, or a sackable offense, but it kinda sucks.

March 2nd, 2012 at 10:11 PM | No im not in favor of it. But (Score:0 Overrated)
March 2nd, 2012 at 10:08 PM | Um... (Score:5 Normal)
BiSB
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Again, I never said I am in favor of a bounty.

Really? Jimmy, roll the tape:

This is like some Buddy Ryan type shit. I love it. As long as its a clean hit, I have np with it. Im sick of how pussified the nfl has become. You cant even tackle anyone without a flag. Keep the bounties coming.

They no longer call me Bisbiño

March 2nd, 2012 at 10:22 PM | Ya you punked me. I was kind (Score:2 Normal)
MAIZEandBLUE2002
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Ya you punked me. I was kind of shifting my focus to me coaching. I would never implement it personally, especially on a high school level. I got caught up and geared my feelings towards somefthing else. I dont mind it on the nfl level as long as its legal. Again, there were other incentives, not just injury. If its legal and clean, than why is that big of deal? I dont wish injuru upon anyone, but it happens. I think ive said too much for the night. Didnt mean to offend anyone. I forgot what type of crowd i was dealing with. I come off unprofessional and a dick, and thats not me. So you guys win. Apologies to everyone.

THOSE WHO STAY WILL BE CHAMPIONS

March 2nd, 2012 at 10:26 PM | I immediately thought of 1:18 -1:50 (Score:2)
Louie C
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March 2nd, 2012 at 10:19 PM | where did you play college (Score:1)
Craze for Maize
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where did you play college ball at?

March 2nd, 2012 at 6:59 PM | Three major sports: (Score:2 Normal)
justingoblue
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Football: Have watched Michigan forever, began reading MGoBlog about two years ago and have finally learned that I can do more than follow the ball. This has enhanced my football-watching experience greatly and I now devote a good amount of time learning about and following the sport. Wouldn't be much help to other users beyond stastics/history.

Basketball: Absolutely none. I understand the basics, and whatever intermediate/advanced stuff I can pick up reading on here, which hasn't been a whole lot for me. Wouldn't be much help to other users beyond stastics/history.

Hockey: Fourteen years playing, eight as a referee. Anyone with an on-ice rules question, feel free to ask. I should know the answer; if I don't I definitely know where to look. I can also talk about coaching-type things, but I am considerably less confident about that. Usually it works out better with me and one or two others who know their stuff answering, especially since a lot of it is opinion.

Go Blue!

March 2nd, 2012 at 6:49 PM | High school safety, went to (Score:3 Normal)
WolvinLA2
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High school safety, went to Michigan and didn't play football (although I was an IM flag football champ one year), and also played a season of semi-pro ball out here in LA, also at safety.

March 2nd, 2012 at 6:50 PM |  I was pretty athletic, but (Score:3 Normal)
THE INCREDIBLE HOKE
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 I was pretty athletic, but football obviously wasn't my sport. I decided to quit football after my Sophomore year in High School and focus on baseball. That decision I made was great, as I ended up being 2-time all-conference (Senior year 1st team and Junior year 2nd team).

March 2nd, 2012 at 10:23 PM | similar story (Score:1)
Craze for Maize
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for me. I gave up football after 8th grade to focus strictly on track. (I wanted nothing more than to win state, missed it by.04 seconds in 8th grade) , but I now have lost my speed running about the same 200 time I ran in 8th grade, (now a sophomore) so I am going back to football next year.

March 2nd, 2012 at 6:53 PM | I just read about it on the (Score:5 Normal)
ebv
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I just read about it on the internet.

March 2nd, 2012 at 6:53 PM | Current HS football player (Score:3 Normal)
mgoblue No.1
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Currently play HS football (nowhere near college quality), huge Michigan fan since birth...hopeful Michigan student in the future!

March 2nd, 2012 at 6:56 PM | I'll bite.  4 years playing (Score:3 Normal)
dayooper63
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I'll bite.  4 years playing OL at Class BB (back when only 16 teams made the playoffs per class).  Three years playing at football at the division 2 level.  Coaching 4 years at a Division 2 high school (sub varsity).  We won the state championship during that time.  9 years coaching middle school and youth football.  High School state champion in powerlifting, heavyweight division and have coached various other sports, including track as well.

Tradition is something you can't bottle.  But it is there to sustain you when you need it most.  I've called upon it time and time again.

March 2nd, 2012 at 6:59 PM | Never played football or any (Score:2 Normal)
ken725
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Never played football or any land based sports.  Growing up in California I grew up around the water, so I played waterpolo, swam and surfed.

I have logged extensive hours on my couch watching football.

Greetings from Bolivia.

"It's special how the real true people hang together. And if you don't support the program you're not a true Michigan guy. It's that simple."  - Gary Moeller

March 2nd, 2012 at 7:00 PM | I'm a girl. So...none. But (Score:4 Normal)
bornintheArbor
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I'm a girl. So...none. But born and raised in Ann Arbor, so loved Michigan football since the day I was conceived.

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March 2nd, 2012 at 7:22 PM | But Kathy Ireland was in (Score:5 Normal)
jonny_GoBlue
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But Kathy Ireland was in Necessary Roughness!?!

March 2nd, 2012 at 9:02 PM | Girls can play football. At (Score:3 Normal)
rockediny
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Girls can play football. At least in high school, I don't know about college.

"There will be blood on the field and it won't be mine." -KK

March 2nd, 2012 at 9:35 PM | We moved to New York when I (Score:1)
bornintheArbor
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We moved to New York when I was in high school. We lived 4 or 5 houses down from the Gronkowski's (yeah, those Gronkowski's). High school football was not going to happen.

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March 2nd, 2012 at 11:19 PM | Unless you're Nick Mangold's sister, Holley, (Score:2)
CleverMichiganR...
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or a freak athlete of above average height, or a kicker or punter, you'll have a hard time being competitive in men's college football as a woman. There are a few schools with women's teams, though.

The world looks better through maize mirror tint. 

Still waiting on backup.

March 2nd, 2012 at 10:24 PM | I think this (Score:1)
Craze for Maize
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is the way it should be.

March 2nd, 2012 at 11:03 PM | I think (Score:2)
CleverMichiganR...
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I shall respectfully disagree.

The world looks better through maize mirror tint. 

Still waiting on backup.

March 2nd, 2012 at 7:23 PM | Football family (Score:5 Normal)
Waveman
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Grandfather played for Crisler. His uncle played for Yost.

I played center, DE, and LS in HS and played center for a semi-pro team in the North American Football League.

March 2nd, 2012 at 7:32 PM | Is that your grandfather in (Score:2 Normal)
M Fanfare
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Is that your grandfather in your profile pic? That is beyond cool to have a family connection to the Yost and Crisler eras. +1

Hail to the college whose colors we wear,

Hurrah for the Yellow and Blue!

March 2nd, 2012 at 7:36 PM | Yep that's my grandfather, Fred Olds (Score:5 Normal)
Waveman
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He was a guard from '37-'39. He blocked for Tom Harmon, which is a cool claim to fame.

His uncle Fred Conklin was the captain of the 1911 team.

March 2nd, 2012 at 7:41 PM | Damn, you've had some old (Score:2)
WolvinLA2
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Damn, you've had some old people in your family.

March 2nd, 2012 at 7:41 PM | Dude (Score:4 Normal)
BiSB
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We demand stories!!!

They no longer call me Bisbiño

March 2nd, 2012 at 10:24 PM | MOAR STORIES!!!!!!!! (Score:1)
Craze for Maize
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MOAR STORIES!!!!!!!!

March 2nd, 2012 at 7:10 PM | I have ZERO college football background (Score:1)
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But my dad has a ton! He was an all American @ Sheridan High School in Sheridan Ohio. He was an incredibly quick runner and had remarkable speed! I know because I've seen his tapes. Well film. Anyways my father signed his LOI to play at get this MSU. He wanted to be a Spartan so bad and he personally was being recrutied at the time by Dufffy Dorey HC at State for the Spartans back in the 60s. Sadly though my father had a career crippling injurie after he finished his junior year in high school. He then never played college football and decided to volunteer for Army service during Vietnam. He was drafted in and when he came back he played for a short time for a college in Kansas called Sterling. He tried out for OSU didn't make the cut under Hayes despite destroying Griffin's personal track record in the 100 meter dash. He even raced Griffin and blew him out of the water. He told me Michigan was one of his options but always wanted to play for MSU.

We hate Michigan State. We don't like Penn State too. We don't care for Minnesota, Wisconsin or Notre Dame but we all hate O-S-U.

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March 2nd, 2012 at 7:36 PM | When he played for Sterling (Score:1)
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When he played for Sterling did he run track or play football?

Michigan FB, Michigan BB, Michigan HKY, 49ers, SF Giants, Sac Kings, Red Wings

March 2nd, 2012 at 7:11 PM | I was (Score:3 Normal)
BlueNation
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I was a Free Safety in high school. First Team All Conference iny my Senior year. Also played Baseball and Basketball. I made an account a week or two ago after we got the flurry of committs and since my first post was on a thread that got deleted, then this is my new first post. Love the Blog and have always been a huge Michigan fan!

March 2nd, 2012 at 7:14 PM | 10 year man (Score:1 Normal)
wolverinebutt
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-2 years youth ball O & D tackle  

-1 Junior High - TE & OG

-4 years High school - O & D Line  

-3 years - DE - Saginaw Valley - Muddy Waters days so that will date me.    

-A couple of years Coaching youth football - O & D Line.

  

 

March 2nd, 2012 at 10:11 PM | Did you play with (Score:1)
Maize and Blue ...
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Eugene Marve?  When I was in HS I used to work out with him at the Y.  4 years HS(RB, CB, and K), 1 year of college, coached youth (OC and HC), and have worked with DBs and K individually at the HS level.

March 2nd, 2012 at 10:59 PM | Eugene Marve (Score:0)
March 2nd, 2012 at 7:17 PM | backup qb for my high school (Score:2 Normal)
JeremyFallon
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backup qb for my high school team

March 2nd, 2012 at 7:18 PM | 8th grade football. Smallest (Score:5 Normal)
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8th grade football. Smallest kid on team.

-being on the 2nd team we rarely saw the field but I do remember the coach calling a reverse and I was flanker so it was my time to shine. The coach took 1 look at me and called a different play instead. In all honesty I probably would have fumbled

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March 2nd, 2012 at 7:18 PM | Ex OSU safety Will Allen (Score:4 Normal)
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Ex OSU safety Will Allen copied off me in highschool. I beat Marcus Freeman in basketball in my driveway.

"im saying to myself should i do it should i not. I crossed the goaline and hey...fuck it" Desmond Howard on his Heisman pose

March 2nd, 2012 at 10:35 PM | Antonio Bass played soccer in (Score:3 Normal)
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Antonio Bass played soccer in middle school with my older brother, then in high school he always asked my brother for answers on quizzes in their Advanced Algebra class...My life was made when I got to take a shot with Antonio at a party during my freshman orientation in '09. He's an incredibly humble and nice guy. And he was faster than anyone I've ever seen as a 12 year old when I watched him play soccer with my brother.

March 2nd, 2012 at 7:19 PM | Played HS football... (Score:2 Normal)
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4 years at HB. Went to Michigan, didn't play football, but was a varsity cheerleader at big blue all four years. Awesome experience.

March 2nd, 2012 at 8:55 PM | Big Blue? (Score:3 Normal)
Bosch
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You also went to Kentucky?

All right Lemmings. Bring the heat.

March 2nd, 2012 at 7:19 PM | A 2nd year player/coach in (Score:2 Normal)
Nothing.But.10ve
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A 2nd year player/coach in pop-warner football.  Competition is stiff this year

I'm awesome.  Get over it

March 2nd, 2012 at 7:24 PM | Played in High (Score:3 Normal)
jonny_GoBlue
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Played in High School

Currently a HS Varsity Assistant in Missouri

March 2nd, 2012 at 7:24 PM | Played high school football (Score:3 Normal)
HAILtoBO
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Played high school football and a lil college baseball. Been a Michigan fan since I was born. The day I was born was when Desmond made "the catch" vs. nd. The doc and my dad wanted to watch the game that day so I was born an hour before the game on purpose.

 

"When your team is winning, be ready to be tough, because winning can make you soft. On the other hand, when your team is losing, stick by them. Keep believing."

March 2nd, 2012 at 7:25 PM | I played 10 years in (Score:3 Normal)
Crazy Canuck
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I played 10 years in inter-city leagues, playing every position but QB. Played 10 years of touch football (similar to flag) and played 7 years of rugby. Tore my ACL, meniscus and put a hole the size of a quarter in my cartilage. So that was the end of my playing career. Might have gone farther if I had grown up in the great republic to the south (I'm from Canada). Coached defence with my brother last year for our nephew's team (12-13 yr olds). Been a fan of the Maize and Blue since the first time I saw the winged helmet roughly 30 years ago. I was such a fan that I turned my brother and a buddy into fans (they were Sooner fans during the Boswoth era).

Michigan fans are not made. They are born!

March 2nd, 2012 at 7:26 PM | A bone condition kept me from (Score:2 Normal)
MGoneBlue
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A bone condition kept me from playing football, but I was a veteran bench warmer in basketball in high school.  One of the perks of going to a tiny school is that you'll make the team if only ten guys try out.

March 2nd, 2012 at 7:28 PM | My avatar was pretty good (Score:5 Normal)
Zone Left
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My avatar was pretty good back in the day.

It's all John Navarre's fault.

 

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